Urban Proximity, Agricultural Potential and Rural Non-farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh

By Uwe Deichmann, Forhad Shilpi, Renos Vakis. 2009

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Summary This paper presents empirical evidence on the relative importance of farm and urban linkages for rural non-farm employment in Bangladesh. The results suggest that people are more likely to be employed in well-paid wage employment and self-employment in the non-farm sector if they are closer to urban centers. Those who are further away from such centers are even less likely to be in well-paying non-farm jobs if they are living in areas with greater agricultural potential. The empirical results highlight the need for improved connectivity of regions with higher agricultural potential to urban centers for non-farm development in Bangladesh.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• ‘Recession push’ and ‘prosperity pull’ entrepreneurship in a rural developing context (2013, background): “Because of that, access to or engagement in non-farm wage employment very often depends on urban proximity and sometimes requires commuting or temporary migration (Fafchamps and Shilpi 2005 ; Deichmann, Shilpi, and Vakis 2009 ; Lohmann and Liefner 2009 ).”
• Five inter-linked transformations in the Asian agrifood economy: Food security implications (2014, background): “That is why the study by Deichmann et al. (2009) in Bangladesh is particularly interesting for its crossing of distance to city with agro-ecological indices.”